Intellect imprint: 532 books
Directors
From Stage to Screen and Back Again
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The interviews contained in Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again demonstrate the myriad ways in which a theater background can engender innovative and stimulating work in film. As unique and idiosyncratic as the personalities they feature, the Director’s conversations with Susan Beth Lehman...
Disaster Capitalism
or Money Can't Buy You Love Three Plays by Rick Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of "natural" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement, sacred...
The Film Paintings of David Lynch
Challenging Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
One of the most distinguished ?lmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is ?rmly rooted in ?ne art. He was motivated to make his ?rst ?lm as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail...
Photocinema
The Creative Edges of Photography and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema—or the interplay of the still and moving image—the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways....
The Visceral Screen
Between the Cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining characteristic of Cassavetes and Cronenberg’ respective approaches is that of “visceral” cinema—a term...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World Film Locations: London is an exciting visually focused tour of a diverse range of films shot on location in London. The volume will contain concise but knowledgeable reviews of carefully chosen film scenes and evocative essays about key directors, themes, ideas and historical periods that explore...
by Bernard Dumpleton, Muriel Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Few men have rightly earned the title of genius, but one must surely be Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In his short lifetime he pioneered the railways, built bridges, tunnels and termini. He also built three ships - theGreat Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern. Each one contributed more to the development...
Architectures of Illusion
From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify and implement new criteria? This profile of the work of the Cambridge University Moving Image Studio...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events as they develop, and news organizations around the world increasingly depend on these amateur images for their coverage of unfolding events. However, with globalization facilitating wider...
by Mary Debrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment, as drivers of digital take-up, innovators and trusted brands.Exploring this remarkable transformation, Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future engages...
by Farrel Corcoran
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in shaping Irish social and cultural life. As the national publicly owned and funded broadcaster, RTE is the biggest cinema, school, sports stadium, market square, performance stage, town crier and concert hall in...
Throwing the Body into the Fight
A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Throwing the Body into the Fight is the first English-language publication dedicated to the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe. Curated and edited by Mary Kate Connolly, the book operates as a collage, drawing together a variety of international voices to create a fragmented portrait of the artist....
Serbian and Greek Art Music
A Patch to Western Music History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Serbian and Greek Art Music is the first ever book in the English language to examine the assimilation and development of western art music in Serbia and Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Music education, music life and the creation of the two neighbouring nations since they gained...
by Lois Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while...